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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "CHINA UNION PAY" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <collinsli@yahoo.cn>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 13:54:28 -0000
Subject: Union Pay/ATM Compensation Payment Notification

Shanghai Future Tower
300 Songlin Road Pudong
Shanghai,200122.China.
              Union Pay/ATM Compensation Payment Notification
Attention Dear Beneficiary,
This is to inform you that the China Union Pay settlement Committee and the ATM International Inc. wish to congratulate you on the successful emergence in our ongoing fund remittance promo of all ATM card users around the globe approved by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This scheme was initiated by the CUP and the ATM Inc. to compensate ATM card users around the world. In regards to this, we wish to inform you that your ATM compensation funds valued at (US$1.800.000.00) One million and eight hundred thousand United States dollars has been authorized to be released to you through our corresponding financial Institution in China.
BENEFICIARY SELECTION PROCESS
No tickets were sold out. Your email was one of the lucky emails/ATM Card users selected RANDOMLY via E-wheel Computer Ballot System drawn from over 200,000 companies and 300,000 individual email/ATM card users, from all over the world during the ATM Online EMAIL Selection draw.
Approval mandate from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the payment will be issue via our swift card payment centers, which is the latest technology powered by the CUP/ATM Inc. This World Union Pay card will be uploaded with your fund and couriered to your location via speed post and a tracking number will be release to you to enable you track your parcel till it gets to its final destination. This card can be used in any ATM machine in any part of the world; you are requested to contact our fund remittance ATM Center Managing Department with the requested information as listed below to the follow office via email.
Shanghai Future Tower
300 Songlin Road Pudong
Shanghai,200122.China.
Email: collinsli@yahoo.cn
Contact Person: Mr. collins  li
 
Required information:
1. Full Name
2. Phone and Fax Number
3. Address Were You Want Them to Send the ATM Card to (P.O Box Not Acceptable)
4. Your Age and Current Occupation
5. Country:
Note that because of impostors, we hereby issued you our code of conduct, which is (ATM-3714) so you have to indicate this code when contacting the card center by using it as your subject. Now contact our ATM center Manager for more details.
We Wait For Your Expedite Response.
Yours in Service,
 
Shanghai Future Tower
300 Songlin Road Pudong
Shanghai,200122.China
Mrs. JinLing Zhou
Online Promotion Announcer..
 

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